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QURN, is extensively taught, and one of the mostimportant of our lessons in this field is the UNCHANGEABILITY OF QURN.

72QURN AND THE SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL NEEDS OFHUMAN

WE BELIEVE that whatever is needed inSPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL dimentions of man, is fundamentally found in the holy QURN. All the governmental and political tenets, all the social principles, the bases of symbiosis, the fundamentals of war and peace, the elements of judgements and economics, and whatever is needed, can be traced in the BOOK and taken out for use, so as to alight the space of human life:

" And We have sent down to you the BOOK, explainingall things, It is a GUIDE, a Mercy, and Glad tidings toMuslims."

THE HOLY QURN S 61: 98

This is why WE BELIEVE that Islam is notAPART of politics and diplomacy. This belief makes

the Muslims to rule over themselves, so as to revivethe precious Islamic values in their societies, leading towards justice and equity. A Moslim Must be just and fair to his enemy as he does justice to friends:

" O, Believers! Stand up firmly to hold JUSTICE, and beas a witness to ALLAH, even against yourselves or your parents or your kins, and whether it be against rich or poor for God is preferable to all that.

follow not your lusts, lest you swerve. If you fail to dojustice, verily Allah is aware of all that you do."

THE HOLY QURN S 4: 531

" O, BELIEVERS! Stand up firmly for the sake of Allah, and bear true witness, and let not the hatered for other men, turn you away from doing justice. deal justly. Justice is nearer to PIETY. Have fear of Allah.

He is aware of all that you do.

THE HOLY

QURN S 5: 8

82RECITATION ,CONTEMPLATION ,AND ACTION

WE BELIEVE that the recitation of QURN isthe best of worship, because it inspires the reciter to

think and to contemplate, by which actions may result. QURN addressing the prophet says:

" Keep vigil all the night( i. e stand in prayer )except fora few hour half the night, more or less; and with measured and." rhythmic tone recite the QURN."

THE HOLY

QURN S 37: 2 4

And addressing all the Muslims, QURN has:

" Read you the QURN as much as you can."

THE HOLY QURN S 37: 42

" Do they not contemplate the QURAN,( so as to catchits meanings )or their hearts are locked up?"

THE HOLY QURN S 74: 42

" And We have indeed made the QURN, easy tounderstand and remember. Then is there anyone who may receive admonition?"

THE HOLY QURN S 45: 71

" And QURN is a book which We have revealed as ablessing: So follow it, and be righteous, so that you receive God's Mercy."

THE HOLY QURN S 6: 851

Therefore those who read QURN, without any

contemplation, and actoin, lose a lot for ignoring twomain, important elements( thought and act )and grasping only one.) reading

(92THE DEVIATING DISCUSSIONS

WE BELIEVE that some mysterious hands havealways tried to deviate and swerve Muslims from contemplation and thought over the verses of QURN.

The OMAYYED and BANIABBAS dynasties engaged the Muslims on void disputes, to answer thequestion whether QURN is old or new!? Is it createdor is eternally old as God!? Such prolong controversi esdivided the united Muslims into rival groups altercatingand fighting each other. To day we know thatthousands of bloods have been shed upon sucharguments about nonesense, and quarrels for nothing! while any one with a common sense can answer thateasily: If by QURN, the paper and ink, the coverand the painting is meant, it is certainly created and issomething new. On the other hand if by QURAN the

meaning is the aim, it is certainly among theknowledge of God, and as the God's Attributes are not apart of His substance, one may say that QURN is as old as God Himself.

But the inhumn, merciless governors tried to keepMuslims busy on these useless subjects; and now adaystoo, we see that the same thing and similar affairshappen in Muslim societies, so as to keep them asideof contemplation and thought.

03RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMENTAT INGQURN

WE BELIEVE that the words of QURAN shouldcommonly be takem for their fundamental meanings and not for their connotations, with the exception of some, that clear reasons prove them to mean other ways. The verses in QURN should never be commentated on the basis of conjectures or self interests. As an instance when we read in QURN:

" And he who was blind in this world, will be blind inthe hereafter( next world ), and most astray from the path.) of salvation (

THE HOLY QURN S 71 :27

We are sure enough that blind in this verse doesnot mean, sihgtless. It rather means some one who has lost his sense of understanding and judgement, and not him who has lost his sense of vision. This is because there are many a blind one, who is virtuous and truthful, and on the contrary, there are many who can see well with their eyes, but who are out of mind and their hearts are locked up and cannot use even their common sense! As another example we may consider the following verse about the enemies of Islam:

" The parable of those who reject faith is that of a man( i. e. the prophet )who calls an animal that can hear nothing except a shout or cry. DEAF, dumb and blind are they, and void of wisdom.) they understand nothing

(THE HOLY QURN S 2: 171

It is evident that those hertics who are addressedhere, were not deaf, dumb or blind. We then may conclude that they were mentally such. Therefore when we read in Qur such verses that:

" The HANDS of God are widely out stretched.

THE HOLY QURN S 5 :76

OR

" O, NOAH! construct the ark under OUR EYES."

S 11: 73

We don't understand that God has physical hand oreye. We rather take hand to mean GOD'S POWER and the EYE to mean HIS KNOWLEDGE. This is because any material or matter consists of parts and needs time and space, as well as direction and is of course perishable. God the Almighty is far Greater and clear of having such attributes.

We never take the fundemental meaning of suchwords as mentioned above. which is not reasonable.

" We sent not any Apostle, except to teach in thelanguge of his own people, in order to clear things for them."

THE HOLY QURN S 41: 4

13THE DANGER OF SELF COMMENTARIES

WE BELIEVE that self commentary of QURN( i. e. to use one's own views and interests in comments )

is a very dangerous programme in relatoin toQURN, and of course one of the few DEADLY SINS. Through a tradition God says:

" He who commentates any words with his own views and selfinterset does not believe in Me!"

evidently had he been a believer, he would notcommentate the words of God to accord with his lusts and conjectures.

In many important books among which we mayname SAHIH TERMADI page 403: It is written thatthe prophet has siad:

" He who commentates QURN by his fancies, andon the basis of self interest, or what he knows not, heshould prepare himself to join the Fire of HELL."

By self commentary we mean to describe or explainthe Quranic verses by one's own point of view. such acommentator is not a follower of Quran, He rathertries to make Qur. to follow his CAPRICES andconjectures. If the Gates of self commentaries be keptopen to Quran, the sacred Book will lose importanceand soon will be of no value among all, because everyone could then seek to compare and conform his false